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Another thing - you provide only a.exe file - I found it very convenient to also have a.zip file which does not try installation into write-protected directories like anywhere on c:\ - if it's not too much hassle, it would be great if you offer that as a second option.

Unfortunately, for Perl 5.8.8 the installation path is hard-coded into Perl, so it has to be done that way.Perl 5.10.0 changes that a bit, and although the initial release of Strawberry 5.10.0 will be hard-coded as well, we'll look at making it movable after release.

HOWEVER, one advantage of moving beyond a config-file driven methodology is that it opens the door to a "Perl from Scratch" idea, where if you want a Perl that installs to a certain place you might, for example do the following.

"Hardcoded into Perl" on Win32 just means patching Config.pm respectively Config_heavy.pl, so the "it has to be done that way" can be remedied by a oneliner to change the installation path. @INC is built dynamically on Win32 anyway, so if you're not using CPAN or the toolchain, you don't even need to mess with Config.pm, Config_heavy.pl or CPAN/Config.pm at all.